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Printed at Amar Ujala power grid Publications Ltd, C21,22 Sector 59, Noida, Distt Gautam Buddha Nagar, 201301 (UP), and On a personal note with published at Plot No.4 Wasme House, Sector singer Rabbi Shergill 16A, Film City, Noida 201301 (UP). Ph. 0120 4577999, Editor: Ashish Upendra 26 In pictures: Mehta (responsible for selection of news under the PRB Act.) The holy dip at Kumbh Lakhs of devotees throng Volume 10 Issue 02 Published for the fortnight Prayagraj to take a dip in the February 16-28, 2019. Released on Sangam, which they believe February 16, 2019. Total number of pages: 52 including covers. can rid them of their sins RNI No. UPENG/2010/33798 www.governancenow.com Cover Image: Ashish Asthana www.GovernanceNow.com 3 Briefings 4,600 applications for 14 sweeper jobs in Tamil Nadu he Tamil Nadu assembly secretariat has received a total Tof 4,600 applications for jobs of 14 sweepers and sanitary workers. If that is not shocking enough then wait for more. Most of these applicants were overqualified for the job and held professional qualifications such as MTech, BTech, MBA, post-graduation and graduation degrees, as well as diplomas. A similar response was seen in January in Maharashtra when 13 job vacancies opened up for waiters in the canteen at the Maharashtra secretariat, Mantralaya, requiring only class 4 passed candidates to apply: it got as many as 7,000 applica- tions, most of them from college graduates. This comes at a time when an official survey reportedly claimed that India’s unemployment rate rose to a 45-year high during 2017-18. ASHISH ASTHANA George Fernandes’ Twitter debutantes VERBATIM defence in Baroda Dynamite case fter social media-shy Mayawati, it’s time for Congress gener- “My younger brother Lawrence Fernandes was arrested on May Aal secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra to make her presence felt 1, 1976 in Bangalore. He was brutally tortured for 15 days, his on the social media platform – Twitter. As on February 12, Priyan- bones fractured, his teeth brokern. He was starved, denied even ka Gandhi had 1,55,000 followers, while BSP supremo had around drinking water, and was reduced to a physical and nervous 78,000 followers. It seems both the Twitter debutantes have real- wreck. He is still in prison. His only offence is that he refused to disclose my whereabouts to the dictator’s police. Another younger ised the importance of social media in an election year and want to brother, Michael, is in detention under MISA for over 13 months leave no stone unturned to engage with their voters. Though Priyan- now. My wife and 3-year-old son are in exile, but fighting. ka Gandhi joined the Twitter bandwagon almost four months after “Why is the state engaging itself in this ruthless pursuit against Mayawati, yet she is far ahead in terms of number of followers. me and my comrades? It is only because of our uncompromising opposition to the dictatorship of Mrs Gandhi. When the state controlled radio and the censored press were telling the world how the people of India had accepted Mrs Gandhi’s dictatorship and her dynastic rule, I was engaged in organising an underground resistance against her fascist dispensation. Those who joined me in this activity were men and women who were fired with the ideals of freedom and liberty, who were not willing to make any compromise with dictatorship; who were willing to stake everything in defence of human rights, who were willing to pay the price of their convictions. “Mrs Gandhi and her Establishment cannot countenance the existence of such uncompromising opposition to her authoritarianism. She not only feels the need to smother such opposition, but by organising this court room extravaganza she hopes to tell everyone of the fate that awaits anyone who may date sto stand up to her. [...] “Our struggle is for (1) democracy, (2) for fundamental rights, (3) for rule of law, (4) against Russian intervention in India’s internal affairs, (6) against corruption, (7) against rising prices, and (8) against unemployment. [...] “The underground document of July 1, 1975, which was extensively circulated in India and abroad is shown as D-390 in your file in the case against us. Its concluding lines are: Mahatma Gandhi’s methods will guide us in our struggle. Mahatma Gandhi will be the unseen leader of our movement to liberate the country from fascist tyranny. It will be Mrs Nehru Gandhi versus Mahatma Gandhi. “That statement still holds good.” – From the statement before the chief metropolitan magistrate of Delhi, on February 10, 1977 (courtesy: www.georgefernandes.org) 4 GovernanceNow | February 28, 2019 THIRD EYE by AJIT PATHAK Over 1,800 gifts to PM auctioned fortnight-long auction of memen- A tos received by Narendra Modi during his tenure as prime minister was held recently to raise funds for the centre’s flagship project ‘Namami Gange’ to clean and conserve the river Ganga. A wooden replica of the Ashok Stambh fetched Rs 13 lakh and a Lord Shiva statuette sold for Rs 10 lakh, much higher than their base prices. The base price of statuette of Lord Shi- va was Rs 5,000 and of wooden repli- ca of the Ashok Stambh was Rs 4,000. Over 1,800 mementos were sold at the auction which took place in two parts: a physical auction organised at the Na- tional Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) for two days and an e-auction. PHOTO: PMMEMENTOS.GOV.IN ‘Nari Shakti’ makes its way to Oxford Dictionaries ari Shakti (women empowerment) has been chosen as the Hindi word of the Nyear 2018 by Oxford Dictionaries. “Early March 2018 recorded a large spike in use of the term Nari Shakti as discussion arose around the Government of In- dia’s Nari Shakti Puraskar (Women Power Award), held annually on Internation- al Women’s Day,” an official statement said. This comes at a time when according to the National Crime Records Bureau data, crimes against women have record- ed 83 percent increase from 2007 to 2016. Wooden Replica When Google predicts Rahul Gandhi’s chances of Ashok Stambh auctioned for Rs 13,00,100 In about 280 characters 98.07% @GabbbarSingh @hussainhaidry Of govt schools have separate After #Budget2019 at matri- India ke saare problems ke monial meetings in small towns solution milte to hai Bandra girls toilets and 96.54% have “Ladka tax pay karta hai” ..will be a sta- West ki coffee shops mein baithe hue functional girls toilets tus symbol.